Ezra 6:10-12

New Catholic Bible

¹⁰ so that they may offer sacrifices that are acceptable to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.

¹¹ “Furthermore, I have issued a decree: if anyone disobeys this order, a beam shall be torn from his house. Then he is to be impaled on it, and his house is to be reduced to a pile of rubble. ¹² May the God who has established his name there overthrow every king or people who may presume to change or to destroy this temple in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued this decree. Let it be strictly obeyed.”